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For one thing, Congress as a whole must still vote to approve the agreement — and for another, the deal creates a new congressional committee to tackle the age-old debate over federal debt and spending.
When I was a Republican back in Brooklyn we had a county leader named Arthur Bramwell who was a soft spoken honest gentleman. But don’t ever get him angry because that is when he became a tough guy shouting out things like I am going to have to cut that back stabbers throat wide open or calling one spineless elected official a cream puff.
As much as I try to close this chapter in my life, I keep being drawn into this imbroglio. In a recent column, Howard “Gatemouth” Graubard, once again demonstrated the lying creep he is. He claimed that I wrote I wrote two favorable columns for State Senator John Sampson, and in return I got two thousand six hundred dollars apiece. Boy; how I wish it were true.
ED: Slow down, don’t vote too fast.
You got to make those Dems the past.
start knocking down some Arab’s homes.
Looking for fun and voting goofy.
Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da…votin' goofy.
Hello Weprins,
How’s yo daddy'?
I've come to kick Saul’s ass, I’m baddy.
Ain't cha got no time for Ed?
Doot-in' doo-doo,
Feelin' not dead.
I've got nothing to do,
and no reasons why.
Field of Dreams is, if not one of the great films of all time, certainly the greatest baseball movie of all time. I had an emotional epiphany recently watching the movie. It was when the main character meets his late father again and looks to his Iowa home and realizes he has saved the family home and reconciled with his estranged father. Many dreams come true in this field.
I applied for a federal job recently. Keeping in mind that I am a former judge they insisted that before they would accept my application they would have to see my college transcripts from 30 years ago. I told them I am a former judge that should be the best indicator of my abilities not my childhood transcripts. They would not budge on their insistence.
In a radio address broadcast Saturday, Obama called for a bipartisan deal to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, while cutting federal spending in the years ahead.
It is maddening to be viciously and inaccurately attacked on the web, and be denied the opportunity to print a response in the place you were attacked. People should have the opportunity to read the response on the thread where the original attack was made.
Bob Turner's commitment to Social Security turns out not to encompass most of those not already receiving it: "Turner told attendees at the fundraiser that some of his most important goals are to preserve Social Security for people 55 and over"
